William Castle, cinema's answer to P.T. Barnum, has a few facts that are worth correcting, because he is such a singular figure in the history of cinema and it's properly fascinating to learn about him. Firstly, The Tingler. The electrified seats were the big gimmick, but the fourth wall scene was a bit more involved than that. The scene in the film already rook place in a movie theater, in which the title creature escapes. The woman who was planted in the audience to faint as a gimmick passed out at roughly the same time as a random woman in the scene did so, which is how they get away with the announcement of "a woman has just fainted", **after** which Vincent Price announced that the creature is loose in the theater. The other is those voting cards. They were obly used for one specific film called Mr. Sardonicus. The film was billed as "the only film with the Punishment Poll", which were the cards in question. At the end of the film, Castle appears on screen (as he usually does in his films) and says he can't do a film without a gimmick, and asks the audience if the villain, who had a mildly sad backstory, had been punished enough for his crimes. The cards had a drawing of a fist with a thumb sticking out, and you held them above eyour head thumbs-up or thumbs-down. But this was all a farce, because there *was* no lenient or merciful ending. He only shot the single ending that he claimed "every audience voted for", in which the villain is shown No Mercy.
The skunk segment was quite hilarious! Ironically, my dog got skunk sprayed just this morning! Fortunately, ever since I got skunked, years ago, I keep a product that dissipates the smell, in my cupboard. So my dog & I have that experience in common❤😂😂
I love Richard's buzzer. That is all😂 When you realize you just watched this a month ago... and are still happy to watch the episode 😊 9:29 "The great brown streak" Richard is too hilarious 😂 nice to see psychics were scamming folks then as they are now😂 11:33 "Is this from their website?" 😂😂 Ah so delightful to have David Mitchell on!
A friend of mine, many years ago, who was a teacher, told me a story: Apparently, another teacher at the same school had caught some boys having a competition to see who could pee the highest in the urinals. When reporting this to the headteacher, the headteacher had asked, ''So how did you react to this ? '' . The teacher who had caught the boys in this act replied, ''Well, naturally I hit the roof !'' .... and the headteacher's response was..... a resounding, ''Congratulations !''
22:45 Sandi is talking about _Mr. Sardonicus._ It was actually a choice between Mr. Sardonicus having a merciful or a punishing ending. In reality there was no merciful ending ever filmed.
I grew up in the city and the country. I'll take the country smells any time. I never minded the smell of skunks and actually enjoy that smell on a highway at times, as long it was for a short stretch. I may have made this same comment on a previous viewing, but I couldn't remember. I came back months later to mention that a feminine hygiene douche will remove the smell of a skunk. Thanks for sharing.
Somebody screwed up the ethanol issue. Ethanol is the alcohol we drink. It's safe as long as we drink it safely, though it burns a bit going down. It is also a preservative. That's why people sometimes describe a drunk person as being pickled. When ethanol is sold in the US as a preservative, or for other non-beverage use, it is adulterated (or "denatured"), meaning another chemical is added to make you sick if you drink it. That avoids the beverage taxes and BATFE involvement.
They pretty clearly say ethanol and formaldehyde and I can tell you now that you do not want to drink formaldehyde. Also ethanol percentages above 70% is extremely bad for you and pure ethanol is absolutely toxic
@@squiglemcsquigle8414 Pure ethanol is no more dangerous than if it is mixed with water and aged in an oak barrel to make it into whiskey. They sell nearly pure ethanol in the US under the brand Everclear as a beverage. It's... I think 95.5% ethanol. For lab use you can get 100% ethanol, but the difference between that and Everclear is meaningless, except for the taxes you have to pay. The only difference is whether you can tolerate the burn as you swallow it. It's the same ethanol. Formaldehyde is found naturally in many fruit juices (notably orange juice). As with ethanol, the dose makes the poison. I've had a face-full of it, and it burns your eyes and your nose and throat if you breathe it in, but it's a natural substance in our natural food supply, and our bodies can handle small amounts of it. My point was mostly about ethanol though. It IS the alcohol we drink in alcoholic beverages. We are all familiar with ethanol. Yeah, it can be harmful, but again, the dose makes the poison, as with everything else, including water.
@@squiglemcsquigle8414 You're in the realm of everything being toxic if you consume enough, even water. One of the most popular rum brands in the USA sells Bacardi 151, which is 75.5% ethanol (151 proof). It can be a serious fire hazard. It burns like hell when you swallow it, but otherwise it's the same as any other liquor. (It's nearly always used as a mixer of course.) In some US states you can also buy Everclear at 95.5% alcohol. For some it's a stupid rite of passage, but not toxic in moderation, like all alcohol. The percentage of ethanol doesn't make it toxic, but the total amount of ethanol can be toxic. Also, you drink formaldehyde when you drink orange juice and many other fruit juices. It's harmless at that level. We metabolize formaldehyde in our livers. Just don't drink too much. *The dose makes the poison.*
I googled the tingler and all that came up was the 1959 Vincent Price Movie, The Tingler. I live in Australia and the other day i was walking to the entrance of a Pub when something out of the window a few feet above my head. People the Sphynx was never a Sphynx it started off with the head of a Jackle. It was a giant Jackle statue.
The Spartan adult men had long hair. At thermopylea before the battle spies saw them coming their hair. So the woman cut of their hair to act like a boy not a man, because the man stimulated to be in a homoerotic with a boy who they helped with his training.
Hmm... boys short hair, men long hair?😂 Maybe compared to other men but maybe to the WOMEN who let their hair grow since childhood ....not as long😂😂 Why do you need them to be wrong??😂
This episode was rather flat in the comedy department for some reason. I know that they didn’t have an audience in the studio, but other episodes taped under the same conditions have been better.
Lol, it’s so funny when Sandy is just SO sure of something she doesn’t know, like the smell of skunks. 😂 Bless her heart. I wonder if she can actually remember it and how bad it is in that memory. On the scale of bad smells, skunk is like a 1. Unless it’s sprayed directly into your mouth, but you could say that about about perfume.
It's the spirits of dead elves. This must be one of the ones they filmed with small audiences. The audience is miked from overhead in sections so whoever is sitting directly below is winding up really hot on the track. They should have just used old laughs or left it completely flat.
It’s during Covid so they had a virtual audience on like a zoom call or something. You pick up specific people talking or laughing because it’s all digitally mixed together.
There is a pleasant aspect to it, it's probably all about the concentration though...I find beers with a slight skunkiness to be enjoyable, but I probably wouldn't feel the same if I was faced with the business end of a skunk XD
@@gabbleratchet1890Kangaroos and wallabies ARE marsupials but also mammals. A marsupial is a mammal that raises its newborns inside their pouch. Or did you mean that Stephen was saying that marsupials aren't mammals at all? Then yeah, that's a bit of an awkward mistake 😅
Very white British advice, when you go to the Colosseum, dont follow the directions of the guides, do whatever the fuck you want because who is gonna do anything about it.
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William Castle, cinema's answer to P.T. Barnum, has a few facts that are worth correcting, because he is such a singular figure in the history of cinema and it's properly fascinating to learn about him.
Firstly, The Tingler. The electrified seats were the big gimmick, but the fourth wall scene was a bit more involved than that. The scene in the film already rook place in a movie theater, in which the title creature escapes. The woman who was planted in the audience to faint as a gimmick passed out at roughly the same time as a random woman in the scene did so, which is how they get away with the announcement of "a woman has just fainted", **after** which Vincent Price announced that the creature is loose in the theater.
The other is those voting cards. They were obly used for one specific film called Mr. Sardonicus. The film was billed as "the only film with the Punishment Poll", which were the cards in question. At the end of the film, Castle appears on screen (as he usually does in his films) and says he can't do a film without a gimmick, and asks the audience if the villain, who had a mildly sad backstory, had been punished enough for his crimes. The cards had a drawing of a fist with a thumb sticking out, and you held them above eyour head thumbs-up or thumbs-down. But this was all a farce, because there *was* no lenient or merciful ending. He only shot the single ending that he claimed "every audience voted for", in which the villain is shown No Mercy.
The skunk segment was quite hilarious! Ironically, my dog got skunk sprayed just this morning! Fortunately, ever since I got skunked, years ago, I keep a product that dissipates the smell, in my cupboard. So my dog & I have that experience in common❤😂😂
I love Richard's buzzer. That is all😂 When you realize you just watched this a month ago... and are still happy to watch the episode 😊 9:29 "The great brown streak" Richard is too hilarious 😂 nice to see psychics were scamming folks then as they are now😂 11:33 "Is this from their website?" 😂😂 Ah so delightful to have David Mitchell on!
Yes it is great to see David ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
A friend of mine, many years ago, who was a teacher, told me a story: Apparently, another teacher at the same school had caught some boys having a competition to see who could pee the highest in the urinals. When reporting this to the headteacher, the headteacher had asked, ''So how did you react to this ? '' . The teacher who had caught the boys in this act replied, ''Well, naturally I hit the roof !'' .... and the headteacher's response was..... a resounding, ''Congratulations !''
Boxes of native soil for "earth bathing". Sounds like vampires!
*You're Dead by Norma Tanega starts to play*
Patricia Routledge as Madame Fontana, the medium, in the Steptoe and Son episode "Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard" came to mind.
22:45 Sandi is talking about _Mr. Sardonicus._ It was actually a choice between Mr. Sardonicus having a merciful or a punishing ending. In reality there was no merciful ending ever filmed.
Because of scurvy the Dutch VOC put a colony at Capetown. The ships could stock up.on fresh greens, meat and fruit
I grew up in the city and the country. I'll take the country smells any time. I never minded the smell of skunks and actually enjoy that smell on a highway at times, as long it was for a short stretch. I may have made this same comment on a previous viewing, but I couldn't remember. I came back months later to mention that a feminine hygiene douche will remove the smell of a skunk. Thanks for sharing.
My brother should have had nicknamed the squirt. He did the same in primary school and managed to get the principal who was walking by.
Somebody screwed up the ethanol issue. Ethanol is the alcohol we drink. It's safe as long as we drink it safely, though it burns a bit going down. It is also a preservative. That's why people sometimes describe a drunk person as being pickled. When ethanol is sold in the US as a preservative, or for other non-beverage use, it is adulterated (or "denatured"), meaning another chemical is added to make you sick if you drink it. That avoids the beverage taxes and BATFE involvement.
They pretty clearly say ethanol and formaldehyde and I can tell you now that you do not want to drink formaldehyde. Also ethanol percentages above 70% is extremely bad for you and pure ethanol is absolutely toxic
@@squiglemcsquigle8414 Pure ethanol is no more dangerous than if it is mixed with water and aged in an oak barrel to make it into whiskey. They sell nearly pure ethanol in the US under the brand Everclear as a beverage. It's... I think 95.5% ethanol. For lab use you can get 100% ethanol, but the difference between that and Everclear is meaningless, except for the taxes you have to pay. The only difference is whether you can tolerate the burn as you swallow it. It's the same ethanol.
Formaldehyde is found naturally in many fruit juices (notably orange juice). As with ethanol, the dose makes the poison. I've had a face-full of it, and it burns your eyes and your nose and throat if you breathe it in, but it's a natural substance in our natural food supply, and our bodies can handle small amounts of it. My point was mostly about ethanol though. It IS the alcohol we drink in alcoholic beverages. We are all familiar with ethanol. Yeah, it can be harmful, but again, the dose makes the poison, as with everything else, including water.
"Ethonol is a killing alcohol"
"Yeah so it's no good" 33:20
@@squiglemcsquigle8414 You're in the realm of everything being toxic if you consume enough, even water. One of the most popular rum brands in the USA sells Bacardi 151, which is 75.5% ethanol (151 proof). It can be a serious fire hazard. It burns like hell when you swallow it, but otherwise it's the same as any other liquor. (It's nearly always used as a mixer of course.) In some US states you can also buy Everclear at 95.5% alcohol. For some it's a stupid rite of passage, but not toxic in moderation, like all alcohol. The percentage of ethanol doesn't make it toxic, but the total amount of ethanol can be toxic.
Also, you drink formaldehyde when you drink orange juice and many other fruit juices. It's harmless at that level. We metabolize formaldehyde in our livers. Just don't drink too much. *The dose makes the poison.*
@@squiglemcsquigle8414 Methanol is the poison one
Boy the RUclips compression algorithm had no idea what to do with that cloud of bats
Skunk is so bad you can taste it, but there are no words to describe it. It's like explaining the color blue to someone who is visually impaired
I googled the tingler and all that came up was the 1959 Vincent Price Movie, The Tingler. I live in Australia and the other day i was walking to the entrance of a Pub when something out of the window a few feet above my head. People the Sphynx was never a Sphynx it started off with the head of a Jackle. It was a giant Jackle statue.
Limes !, hence Limeys..
The Spartan adult men had long hair. At thermopylea before the battle spies saw them coming their hair. So the woman cut of their hair to act like a boy not a man, because the man stimulated to be in a homoerotic with a boy who they helped with his training.
English isn't your first language, is it ?
Hmm... boys short hair, men long hair?😂 Maybe compared to other men but maybe to the WOMEN who let their hair grow since childhood ....not as long😂😂 Why do you need them to be wrong??😂
I think a skunk spray smells the way roasted pumpkin seeds taste plus ammonia, but X 1,000
This episode was rather flat in the comedy department for some reason. I know that they didn’t have an audience in the studio, but other episodes taped under the same conditions have been better.
Lol, it’s so funny when Sandy is just SO sure of something she doesn’t know, like the smell of skunks. 😂 Bless her heart. I wonder if she can actually remember it and how bad it is in that memory. On the scale of bad smells, skunk is like a 1. Unless it’s sprayed directly into your mouth, but you could say that about about perfume.
Some people are not effected from skunk stink. Some people are really effected by the stink.
It just smells like super strong crappy weed, I'm surprised no one mentioned that in the show.
I always say it smells like strong salami
Matter of opinion but I forget, yours is right😂
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The earth bathing thing sounds alot like grounding nowadays.
What's with the weird extra laughing and comments from the audience in the background? Very strange
It's the spirits of dead elves. This must be one of the ones they filmed with small audiences. The audience is miked from overhead in sections so whoever is sitting directly below is winding up really hot on the track. They should have just used old laughs or left it completely flat.
It’s during Covid so they had a virtual audience on like a zoom call or something. You pick up specific people talking or laughing because it’s all digitally mixed together.
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28:03 my toxic trait is that i actually really like the smell of a skunk......i think it smells earthy o.o
There is a pleasant aspect to it, it's probably all about the concentration though...I find beers with a slight skunkiness to be enjoyable, but I probably wouldn't feel the same if I was faced with the business end of a skunk XD
Does Alan ever win?
He wins all the time, he's just happy to sacrifice himself to the klaxons for comedy and to keep the show moving along
@@r00pea I'm aware of that, I said it in irony
What with the weird audio balance?
You mean the audience?
Alan is so painful in this series. Screaming about things that were funny until he started.
Um..... ethanol is absolutely drinking alcohol...do they call it something different in Commonwealth English or...?
It’s QI. They get tons of things wrong. Just saw an episode in which Stephen Fry insisted that kangaroos are “marsupials, not mammals.” 🤦
@@gabbleratchet1890Kangaroos and wallabies ARE marsupials but also mammals. A marsupial is a mammal that raises its newborns inside their pouch. Or did you mean that Stephen was saying that marsupials aren't mammals at all? Then yeah, that's a bit of an awkward mistake 😅
Or what?
Funny... Brits talking about how good a mummy's teeth look.
Are you from Utah, by any chance ? (asking for a friend)
Why do all British panel shows have meaningless points to be scored?
Because of the Empire (I have no idea, but it's usually the right answer)😁
From the side, a skunk looks all black and skinny, like a big lizard
Look like a lizard, do handstands like a gymnast. 🦨
Is it just me or does the laughter in this episode dive you nuts? I had to stop watching.
Very white British advice, when you go to the Colosseum, dont follow the directions of the guides, do whatever the fuck you want because who is gonna do anything about it.
34:47 I'm surprised no-one said "I didn't know the Church of England had a diocese called 'Durham's Rectum'!". That's where I would have gone.